TikTok calls on Supreme Court to issue emergency order to block potential US ban of popular app [Video]

TikTok asked the Supreme Court on Monday to step in and issue an emergency order to block the law that would ban the popular video-sharing platform in the U.S. starting next month unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, agreed to sell it.

Lawyers for TikTok and ByteDance requested that the court step in before the Jan. 19 deadline to sell the platform or face a ban in the U.S., The Associated Press reported. A similar request was filed by content creators who use the platform to make an income.

“A modest delay in enforcing the Act will create breathing room for this Court to conduct an orderly review and the new Administration to evaluate this matter — before this vital channel for Americans to communicate with their fellow citizens and the world is closed,” the lawyers told the court.

TikTok and critics of a potential ban say the law, which was approved by Congress and …